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Ice Skating Humanoid Robot

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Advances in Autonomous Robotics (TAROS 2012)

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Current humanoid walking gaits are ill-suited to traversing low-friction environments such as ice. For robots to be useful outdoors in the winter they must be able to move across ice without falling over. In this paper we present a skating gait for a small humanoid robot equipped with ice skates to enable it to traverse indoor and outdoor ice surfaces faster than an inverted pendulum-based walking gait would allow.

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  1. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T2N2, Canada

    Chris Iverach-Brereton, Andrew Winton & Jacky Baltes

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Guido Herrmann

  2. Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England, BS16 1QY, Bristol, U.K.

    Matthew Studley

  3. University of the West of England, BS34 8QZ, Bristol, UK

    Martin Pearson , Andrew Conn  & Chris Melhuish ,  & 

  4. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, SW7 2BT, London, UK

    Mark Witkowski

  5. Robot Intelligence Technology Laboratory, Department of EECS, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  6. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Prahlad Vadakkepat

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Iverach-Brereton, C., Winton, A., Baltes, J. (2012). Ice Skating Humanoid Robot. In: Herrmann, G., et al. Advances in Autonomous Robotics. TAROS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7429. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32527-4_19

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